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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: Was the news wrong?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: Last week the CEO of the HSE confirmed that he would not be able to deliver promised services on the current level of funding. A range of additional services are listed in the programme for Government in elderly care and acute hospitals. That is a very serious statement from the CEO. It is the first time I have heard a CEO being so emphatic in that regard. It has also been confirmed that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: People elected the Government on the basis that it would give a medical card to everyone with a chronic illness and the Government has done the exact opposite; it started taking thousands of medical cards from people.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The issue relates to the programme for Government. Will the Taoiseach change the policy?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: I was referring to promised services.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: I said the language had changed.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met members of the Northern Ireland Executive recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47758/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he has visited Northern Ireland recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47847/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the particular areas of youth unemployment that was discussed at the British Irish Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50146/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the specific actions he will take on youth unemployment following the British Irish Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50147/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: I agree we need a debate on Northern Ireland and it is much to be regretted that the defining characteristic of Government policy over the past three years has been a hands-off policy. There has been a lack of any co-ordinated development in regard to the Border region. The crystallisation of this was the failure to go ahead with the Narrow Water bridge project. I find it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is over.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should have got it sorted in the time.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: I seek clarification from the Taoiseach on the situation pertaining to Irish Water and ask him to give Government time for a debate on it, particularly given his remarks to me last week on Leaders' Questions, when he stated:Second, in the matter, as I understand it, of a parliamentary question which was to have been sent to Irish Water, it did not go, and the Department has apparently...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: What does that mean? Does it mean the Minister in his name will give-----

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach stated parliamentarians would get proper responses to any questions they tabled to a Minister, but he seems to be changing his position and now states Irish Water will write to Deputies. The Secretary General is stating this. The Taoiseach needs to be correct and very clear and transparent about what will happen. The big objection last week was that Deputies were kept in the...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: They did not get any reply.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am sorry-----

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: I answered questions when I was a Minister.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach stated we would get answers to any questions we tabled here for Irish Water.